Prodigal Tots

For me music`s a narcotic<br>Beyond the healing power of antibiotics and hypnotics<br>Watch me push my products<br>To the prodigal tots<br>Grow them up to methodical robots<br>Proud parents applaud the work ethic<br>Oblivious to symptoms and blind spots within them<br>I wasn`t born this way<br>I grew to the man that stands before you today<br>With the help of countless blind eyes that were happy to oblige<br>Take your time with the interpretation<br>Lest you lose the story`s message in the translation<br>Pay attention while I offer up the narration<br>See I had a band, we wrote some songs, we got along famously<br>But missing puzzle pieces made the puzzle wrong and incomplete<br>As time went on the body count was a roll-call for the victims of routine<br>So I jumped ship and inflated my passions and went to sea<br>I always wrote but I couldn`t sing<br>Though every note danced in my brain<br>Every moment, the words, they came<br>Every moment became a day<br>Every day became a stepping stone<br>A guessing game I played alone<br>I stumbled and I slipped and I tripped and I fell<br>But oh well<br><br>All my heroes carry guns<br>Take this, and take this, and take this and run<br>Don`t stop, update everyone<br><br>A basement full of idiots<br>Hooked on the box, smoking pot<br>They had a gift, they had a vision, they forgot<br>But I remember like it`s present tense<br>That I`ve been trapped in ever since<br>Experienced a metamorphosis of how I rock<br>Another disillusioned son<br>Another CD pressed and spun<br>Another kid that wants to rap to solve his problems claiming therapy<br>Claiming he`s the one<br>Claiming all sorts of unfounded stuff he`s not<br>Claiming a lot<br>Claiming he`s a prodigal tot<br>So I shed my skin of an instrument<br>That I was clinging to like it was my dick<br>And broadened my horizons just a bit<br>Birth of a b-boy<br>I`ve been growing stronger ever since<br>And if the story`s not unfolding how you like it sell the disc<br>Some think the faith has been replaced by an angry face<br>Their mistake ‘cause now I recreate<br>Now I resurrect the pain of a blind date<br>Who`s on time and overweight<br>And I see you ascending to greatness<br>By redefining the word to match your little resume pages<br><br>All my heroes carry guns<br>Take this, and take this, and take this and run<br>Don`t stop, update everyone<br><br>Was turned off to hip-hop at a young age by bullies and tough guys<br>Who got their way by ganging up to terrorize<br>Then came `92 and Rage taught me to say "Fuck you!"<br>And once again I started rocking Everlast and Guru<br>The band took a new shape with my man Jake<br>We`d sit and write raps for hours after school while my guitar played<br>And gently weeped a teardrop rain shower with lightning power<br>We had our little hometown respect and everybody knew the repertoire<br>Assuming we`d break large and go far<br>But over time time started to weigh heavy on the mind<br>And fill in the blanks with any clichй of the day, they all fit fine<br>Long, long story short<br>A long time went by and I lived my life, killed myself and died<br>Truth is that didn`t happen, I just remember it that way<br>Because it`s how I felt inside<br>I was a prodigal tot<br>Not different than a lot of kids at that spot<br>Setting themselves up for the kill shot<br>Difference is I survived the bullet<br>Not by dodging it, but absorbing it and living through it<br>If you don`t want rehab to change you, then don`t fucking do it<br><br>All my heroes carry guns<br>Take this, and take this, and take this and run<br>Don`t stop, update everyone